How Do We Define the Green Collar Economy?

In America, the Green Collar Economy is limited only to high cost alternatives sure to fail like wind, solar and cellulosic ethanol. That is why our company is leaving for overseas. When the last person leaves, be sure to turn the lights out.

There's nothing stopping anyone from using other renewable energies if they want to spend the time and money. I've read of people making bio-diesel in their garages. (Yes, I know not everyone has a garage.) I'm really big on insulating. Even if you don't own your home, you can still insulate your apartment door(s) and window(s), put solar film on the glass, put up your own room-darkening curtains, and buy fluorescent or LED bulbs (LED is still an "emerging" technology but is available for low-light situations such as track lights, night lights, etc.) Don't forget conservation of water, and being skimpy on your driving to save fuel. Insulation and conservation are where it's at, really.

I am writing to give a very firm suggestion and idea that the China Government should do and be doing. That is to make all China Cities Emergency ready.

We spend too much time learning of the emergency, then, packing up rescue supplies, putting on trains and planes and helicopters. Then getting the rescue authorities, doctors, nurses, and people to help in the relief efforts. Then campaigning to collect donations is too time consuming. Too much time goes by, before people are rescued. Because really China is not ready or prepared. But China need not be singled out in this. The entire world suffers from their lack in being prepared.

China should have Emergency Readiness in every nook and crany in China, to include all major cities in China. This would create the many needed jobs for people. This can be a real basis to the meaning of having an economy. Economies need to be based on Emergency Management and the ability to deliver rescue at the time it strikes.

Even the United States is lacking in this regard, to having emergency readiness in each and every community. We only need to see the inability of the US to take care of the people from the Katrina Disaster, not to mention Hurricane Ike. In fact there have been too many disasters to count for this article of warning. Then the US likes to think it can rescue other countries from disasters such as Haiti's earthquake, which is still on going at the moment. We need to base our economies on Emergency Response.

This makes more sense than the illusions of Market Economies. When we focus on providing supplies and materials for Emergency Economies, we have a sound basis and grounds for support to real peoples in need of relief. The world relies on the Market Economy to provide the needed money that becomes very scant and meager when an emergency knocks down the door. But if we base our Economic Structure on Emergency Relief Economics our jobs depend on it's success, and many jobs are created that are Recession

and Depression proof. Our real survival is based on Emergency Preparatory Economics.

Many University graduate students can obtain jobs. There needs to be selected locations in all Cities that will provide Emergency Supplies and Support to the people. How can this be a bad or wrong thing? It is not. We need this in PR China....to save time in rescue operations, and show that the China government is competent in really providing immediate support in the event of emergency.

We need to realize that there will be more Disasters in the future, and by implementng the China Emergency Preparatory Management Policy, the China government assures it to have immediate supplies on hand. Leaders in the Provinces should know how many people they have and to setup relief stations for impending disasters that could occur.

This means having heavy equipment and operators located throughout the country. Tents and transportable shelters should be stored in each and every city. By basing the China economy on Emergency Response...more and more jobs will come forward..

Transportable Shelters could be stacked in special locations in each and every community in China....Only needing a truck to move it to the location where the people are suffering and in need of help. Supplies of water, blankets, tools, medicine, would be stored in China Emergency Stations. Jobs will be to keep supplies in watch and care so they are useable.

This will save time, and provide immediate response. As all communites are connected to each other, relief efforts can be swift and without due hardship.

I hope you can get this to President Hu and Minister Wen. They are key to organizing this. I do hope you will relay this message. Also for the eyes of President Obama, and UN President Banki Moon. And all the leaders in the countries throughout the world.

This is so much really a worldwide problem. Because the world bases its economic structure on markets and getting rich instead of thinking how to p

protect the people when disaster strikes. Economies should be based on how prepared they are for Emergencies. This is the basic requirement. When we focus on a Rescue Preparedness Economy, we all help each other, instead of arguing who is rich and who is not...Because disasters do not discrimate. Disasters affect us all.

The structure of our economy defines the components of the system, and is the most important consideration before implementing any new policies. If you think disaster relief "should" motivate our economy, first realize that is a motive hardly considered by most profit seeking businesses. I think we need to internalize external costs in the energy economy first. Paul Krugman recently cited some great ideas in this area in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/magazine/11Economy-t.html

Hendricks hit the nail on the head in discussing innovation, and looking forward instead of looking back for job creation. If the US doesn't lead the world in innovating new products, the rest of the world will leave us in their dust. We need to make real investments today in leading technologies to stay competitive. This process will create jobs and give us a chance to begin attacking the sustainability crisis faced by our global economy.

100%, LONG TERM, Tax cuts for AE infrastructure, equipment, labor and the sales and purchasing of renewable fuel and energy from renewable fuel sources, level the playing field with tax cuts not with job killing carbon and fuel taxes. 100% tax cuts and low interest loans for the purchase of HEVs and EVs. Install a chip that communicates with the gas pump and give a tax break for fuel efficient vehicles, the same can be done for fuel efficient appliances ect.. The government needs to stop "investing" in future tech and allow the private sector to create the green $$ energy infrastructure with the reality tech solutions of today.

The government doesn't even have an energy policy, outside of "investing" and subsidizing corrupt "solutions" like ethanol. The government has created an impossible environment for any AE tech company to operate at a profit, let alone flourish in. Hevs and EVs have to compete against government owned and operated auto companies and government funded Al Gore auto, Fisker. HEVs and EVs must compete against government funded ethanol, subsidy's to big oil and utility lobbying efforts like Southern Company's nuclear ambitions.

Our businesses are waiting for a government hand out and corporate welfare program before they act, we need to cut the taxes for the AE solutions of today, ALL of them, not just some government chosen "targeted cut" to special interest.

This is the road map, a for profit $$$ green solution, led by business for profit.

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Winning the Oil Endgame

In 2004, Rocky Mountain Institute's Chief Scientist, Chairman and Co-founder Amory Lovins and a team of RMI collaborators accomplished a highly complex and innovative task -- the drafting of a roadmap for the United States to get completely off oil by 2050, led by business for profit.
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the total energy like oil are going to end up mostly at 2050 hence the bio energy make a large difference in us ,english c and devoloping contries like India hence all the people of the world mus convert into bio fuel with this we can save the formars and many opportunity in job .this technology can be established in India and with this we can save earth

I'm sorry it's not emergencies that spur innovation; it's realizing a need and seeing a potential profit in fulfilling that need. Someone will invent an anti-gravity machine or some other technology that removes the need for fossil fuel; where would that leave all the efforts put into internal combustion for the last 150 years? The smart people of this nation need to think outside the box; Amory Lovins idea that electric cars will solve storage issues is antique, that group needs to put their brain power in another direction, aimed at other energy sources that might exist beyond fossil fuel and natural resources.

I worry that the effort to transition to a "green energy economy" while retaining the old-world, selfish capitalist model is like trying to cram a square peg into a round hole. Is greed (profit) really the best (or only) goal that drives us human beings? Howabout the deeply moral drive to "make the world a better place," for ourselves and our children? Howabout taking our stewardship of this fragile planet seriously? A concern for the human legacy? For some, these are much more powerful motivators than "I want to get rich."

Quite frankly, we should not trust anyone that is motivated by profit because their allegiance can be bought and sold. They covet money, not the overall well-being of humanity and nature, as a core value. A "green energy economy" should balance human and environmental concerns using a broad and inclusive pragmatic metric. Cost of implementation is a single consideration among many. To a large extent, I agree with Mitch that our best & brightest should devote their energies to "thinking outside the box" -- devising radically new modes of being and living that transcend the Matrix-like limitations imposed by our current archaic systems of water and power delivery.

Profit, economics, being green and Big Brother... it is all there and will be there for the rest of our lives... some will fight it and others will flourish with it stomping on the root of our survival... so what do we do?

Green jobs should support our need for advancement and take into consideration how things in nature survive... a while back I read an article that stated how a new technology mimics photosynthesis. A plus for those worried about what to do with expired cells or solar panel efficiency since it creates minimal heat and do not loose performance overtime (as of yet)...

Another example is building codes.... while we enjoy the infrastructure to build buildings AND make them compliant within our geographical location (meaning earthquakes, flood plains and cold weather). Some codes are safe for people but the resources required are not always green...

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A simple definition of a Green Collar Economy might be; a combination of appropriate, efficient, conservation of energy with the remaining load tilted toward current sunlight energy. For example, where we currently depend on fossel fuels for most of our energy mix, we can begin to use the waste heat and carbon-dioxide exhausts from the existing power plants to carry on accellerated photo-synthesis (via the use of single cell organisms) so as to produce carbo-hydrates which in a sense have trapped the carbon emissions and where the produced bio-diesel, etc. replaces the use of fossil fuel for that portion of our current usage. We still need fossil fuel to produce products, but even that can be supplimented by this process where the by-products can include paper and plastic ingredients from current sunlight. The use of wind energy, ocean energy, and geothermal energy are other examples of the use of current sunlight, versis the use of fossel fuel from historical sunlight. As we increase the use of current sunlight and reduce the use of fossil fuels, our production of the various greenhouse gases will be proportionately reduced. I for one am interested for instance in the use of the magma-thermal electric energy source from say Mt. Saint Helens, using the vacuum degassing process to extract thermal energy and minerals from the magms in a closed loop cycle which returns the remaining magma to the geothermal field and successfully re-sequestors the hydrogen-sulfide and sulfur-dioxide in the magma field. This can be accomplished by drilling laterally into the side of the volcano and installing a steel feed and return tube of say four foot in diameter, lined with a high temperature ceramic which will stand up to the magma and will include phase change cooling which will allow the recovery of still more energy while minimizing the wear on the tube. The degassing chamber and electrical production facilities could be installed in an elevated safe location.

Capitalism is based on greed, the ugly side of human nature. When we decide that leaving a clean Earth to our posterity is more important than leaving a diversified stock portfolio, then we will succeed as humans.
We know that the world's natural fossil fuel resources are limited, that we are using them much quicker than they are/were created(unless of course, you think a god just snapped it's fingers and created all of this in an instant and is willing to do so again when we are deemed worthy of such). As a race, we have no plan. We pray to our gods to fix things, but it is really up to us. We say, oh well, the next generation will figure it out. That, not a national debt, is an unreasonable burden to place on those who follow us.
On this bright, sunny spring(in Missouri,USA) day, my solar panles are making double returns on the initial investment. They are keeping some carbon in coal rather than in the air and earning us an average of $1.40 per day in financial return on a risk-free $16,000.00 investment. What corporate stck can be expected to do either?

Some of you posters, like John, really need to read the constitution.

"Quite frankly, we should not trust anyone that is motivated by profit because their allegiance can be bought and sold."

The very reason for limited government that operates within the boundary of the constitution, unlike cap & trade, which is nothing more than a big government-wall street ponzi skeam.

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